World Cup team players to undergo doping test and medical checks up

World Cup team players to undergo doping test and medical checks up

The players of all 32 competing nations at this year's World Cup finals will undergo both doping tests and medical checkups, FIFA the football's governing body as revealed.

This is a good move by FIFA for the well being of football players. I remember Cameroon International Marc Vivien Foe collapsing suddenly during the 2003 Confederation Cup match between his team and Colombia after a suspect heart attack. The chap lost his life because they couldn't resusitate him.

As a consequence of that tragedy, FIFA have now decided to have defibrillators, an apparatus that helps to restart a stopped heart, on hand at the 12 World Cup stadia.

Also, a minimum of four players from each team will be dope tested randomly before and during the month-long competition.

FIFA also said their doctors will carry out tests on players in the friendly matches which take place in April and may leading up to the finals.

Diego Maradona the Argentinian legend is the only high profile player to have taken recreational drug cocaine during the 1994 World Cup Finals

It looks like FIFA mean business this time around.